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Philips to pay $7M for price-fixing scheme affecting millions of Washingtonians

Many Washingtonians who purchased TVs and computer monitors between 1995 and 2007 will receive restitution through a claims process

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that Philips, a multinational electronics company, will pay $7 million as part of the Attorney General’s price-fixing lawsuit against manufacturers of cathode ray tubes, or CRTs, a technology once ubiquitous in television screens and computer monitors.

El Procurador General Ferguson pide a los residentes de Washington que compartan los efectos de la política de separación familiar de Trump

OLYMPIA: La Oficina del Procurador General solicita información de los residentes de Washington sobre los efectos que están experimentando, o que esperan experimentar, como resultado de la política de separación familiar del gobierno de Trump. 

AG: Citibank to pay states $100M over interest rate manipulation

Affected Washington entities eligible for restitution

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that Citibank, a Wall Street financial institution, will pay a total of $100 million to 42 states for manipulating a key interest rate before and during the Great Recession, costing investors millions of dollars.

These manipulations may have led     investors to make riskier investments than they realized, or impacted the profits from or costs of various investments throughout the financial system.

AG Ferguson statement on culverts decision

OLYMPIA — The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 4-4 decision in the culverts case today, which means the lower court decision will remain in place. That ruling forces the state to pay 100 percent of the cost of replacing barrier culverts, even though the federal government provided the design for those culverts, and regardless of whether other barrier culverts block salmon from getting to the state culverts. Attorney General Bob Ferguson offers the following statement:
 

AG Ferguson response to US Supreme Court ruling in Colorado discrimination case

High court ruling will not affect similar Washington case

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson offered the following statement in response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission:

 

“Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision may add some procedural steps to the Arlene’s Flowers case, but it will not alter its ultimate resolution.

AG’s sex predator unit seeks to prevent release of Thurston County sex offender into community

OLYMPIA — The Washington Attorney General’s Office filed a petition today in Thurston County Superior Court seeking to civilly commit a sex offender and prevent his release into the community.

Randy R. Smith, 59, was convicted of first-degree rape of a child in 1990. He was also convicted of first-degree voyeurism in 2013, which constitutes a recent overt act under the Sexually Violent Predator Act.

AG charges inmate with attempted murder after attack on officer

Clallam Bay corrections officer suffered traumatic brain injury from attack

PORT ANGELES — The Attorney General’s Office filed second-degree attempted murder charges today in Clallam County Superior Court against a state prison inmate after an assault left a corrections officer with a traumatic brain injury.

The charges are only allegations. A person is presumed innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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